Studies women’s resistance in the three countries of the Maghreb, concentrating on: What has been the role of women artists since the 1960s in unlocking traditions and emancipating women on their own terms? Why have Maghrebi women rarely been given the right to be heard since Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia gained national independence?

This book studies how smaller Gulf states managed to increase their influence in the Middle East, oftentimes capitalising on their smallness as a foreign policy tool. By establishing a novel theoretical framework, this study identifies specific ways in which perceptual smallness affect power.